The purpose of this course is to help students develop personal and professional skills for critical professional social work practice. This includes increasing self-awareness as important knowledge for practice; an emphasis on developing skills for experiential learning; an orientation to the values and characteristics of the social work profession, professionalism and social work practice; and the development of beginning competency in generic crisis intervention theory as well as skills common to all levels of social work practice. The course will also prepare students for their initial field education experience through the clarification of expectations of students in a field placement, including emphasis on preparation of learning contracts. This course intends that students will be able to generalize both personal and professional knowledge and skills to the broad range of clients, groups and communities with which they may intervene.
- Teacher: Jenni Cammaert
- Teacher: Robert Eckstein